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  1. Re:goal to make things suck? on Pdf.js Reaches First Milestone · · Score: 1

    No it because Adobe Acrobat reader has taken too long to rid of legacy security risks, so the point of the project is designed to removed the need for it in the first place.

    Yes a Native reader is great for a PDF document already your system, this is for PDFs on the web that you don't even know if you want to to save to your system or not (anymore than any web document is temporarily put in your cache)

  2. Re:Save important pet lives...? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    That said, some people just have to have breed X.

    While I'm sure you're referring to certain vanity purchase. But sometime they really do need breed X because breed X needs actully messes with what they can provide, and breed Y will simply cause problems, either for them, or their neighbours, and in the end Breed Y.

    Though that being said the law would have been better worried that it Prohibition sale without a licenses with an written expedition that the ban does not cover 'free to a good home' adoptions, and simple maker the licenses requires tighten enough that only the 'good breeder become the only viable way to keep your license..

  3. Good Secuirty Move on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    Actually this makes a lot of since from a security point a view. If Help desk is also response for maintain the machines be able to identify the person removed a computer or hard drive the a workspace, is a very good idea

  4. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    That's because it's the only web safe font [ampsoft.net] that comes close to looking like hand writing.

    I highly doubt that the people who use Comic Sans are considering the web safety of fonts, or even know what that means.

    Then reevaluate your line of thought. I Deftly use Comic San because it is website, and because it the only one that resembles hand writing, and is highly legible.

    Why? because hand writing looks less formal and more personal, and that the impression the site I use it on want to give. Of course it would not be the font I use if I was writing something Formal or businesslike related where you want to look clinical, not personal

  5. Re:contractor position? on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    You know, people always use this quote to point out something ridiculous... After all, how can my morale improve if I'm being beaten?

    But that isn't the point. The point is to improve the morale of the person performing the beatings...

    *hands you a copy of SM101 so you can realize it is you who missed the point 8)*

  6. Re:it won't be illegal once you pay for it. on Will the New RIAA Tactic Boost P2P File Sharing? · · Score: 1

    Basically publisher need to remember the business is promoting music, that they meant to work for the artists not the other way around.

  7. Re:Republican grandstanding on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    They won't be holding the vote in a few weeks. Pelosi doesn't intend to ever have the vote.

    As explained why she not allowing this to come up to vote (she came onto the Daily Show). There is already plenty land inside that has equally or grater promotional to contain oil, that have already been cleared to drilled, but the oil companies are not touching them, why open up more protected areas?

  8. Re:i'm hoping... on Jack Thompson Faces Disciplinary Hearing · · Score: 1

    Assuming Hilary is poltically niave enough to take him on as such.

    can you see jack playing second fiddle?

  9. Re:GURPS Space next on my 'Must Buy' list. on Generic Dungeons, Universal Dragons · · Score: 1
    The biggest problem with GURPS is that it tries to be all things to all people (hence the Generic Universal part). That's what kills it. GURPS is just...boring. It's a clear and fairly straightforward system, to be sure. But it's just not at all fun. GURPS is what a role playing system would be if it were invented by IBM.

    Then you have not looked at the Setting Books 8) Conan, Uplift, Discwork, IOU, etc...
  10. Re:Now what we need is on Generic Dungeons, Universal Dragons · · Score: 1
    Well, except that D&D is the one with a core available under an "open" license inspired, in part, by the GPL, whereas GURPS and Warhammer and both "closed".
    You're not familure with SJGame's Online police, and the "Powered by GURPS" Divistions 8) Powered By GURPS allows other publishers to use the GURPS rules for their settings, with only a small restristion of a finial edtorial pass by SJGames before publishing. PbG settings inled Prime Directive and Hellboy
  11. Re:No, you can't have a constitution on New York Attorney General Sues Spyware Company · · Score: 1
    Absolutely - if you are obviously having to circumvent some security (nomatter how crap) then you probably shouldn't be doing it. But what I'm saying is that when people leave systems completely open why should the "client" be held responsible for this rather than the "server" - in many cases it's impossible to tell (at least before connecting to a service) whether it was intended to be a legitimately public service or not. Using 802.11 as an example - when I see an open 802.11 network broadcasting invitations for me to use it how would I be expected to know if it's accidentally open or intentionally open?


    the Same why you are have implicit invitation to enter a shop, but not to enter the unlock stock/back room.
  12. Re:Chairs flying at Microsoft on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1
    Why not buy the Cartoon Channel instead
    becuase it's owned by the very people that you point out is foolish to take on. Cartoon Network, is a Turner Channel.
  13. Re:Good Points but.. on Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams · · Score: 1

    [quote].in these cases, the police don't require any judicial over-site to place these cameras. A normal 'stakeout' requires exactly that, and I think this is might be viewed as a dangerous development.[/quote]

    Umm sorry a stake out that these camers replase need no judical oversight. it is watching plain sight actvities.

    This is diffrent from eletronic easedrop or wire tapping, ack going beyoung plain sight activines, those are the ones that require judical overight.

    this is the stake out you see in the movie two cops in a car drinking coffee.

  14. Re:Do we own it on Tennessee to Tax Software as Property? · · Score: 1

    I see this as a GOOD move.

    Argument Softwear we make is owned by use not the people we lend it to.
    Answer, Fine then each lience is an accset, and you pay for it as such.

    hence possible a push to reconise distrobution rights rather than ownership rights for software.

  15. Re:That one droid in KOTOR.. on Japanese Find Robots Less Intimidating Than People · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Asimov's Spacer from his Robot series.

  16. Lyrics on Song Sites Face Legal Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Question I was actully under the impresstion that by law that producers of recroded must must provide [apon request] the lyrics to something the are selling.

    how can they bee gettin loss in reveinue over somthing the have to give way when asked for?

  17. Re:I'd like to see this go to a jury. on First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial · · Score: 1
    A male mother of five has bigger problems than the RIAA


    What haven't you ever heard of "Mr Mom" used before to adress a father thatis the primary caregiver for the children?
  18. Re:Could it be? on JPEG Patent Challenged · · Score: 1

    "Do you have"|"could you make"

    a tutotail vetion of this with an eye for CCS newbies to be able use this code?

  19. Re:If JPGs aren't available... on JPEG Patent Challenged · · Score: 1
    Png's are lossless, but they're called "Portable Network Graphics" for a reason. They're portable graphics specifically meant for implementation on a network (such as a high traffic site).
    No being a Portable Network Graphics, means it small enought to reasonibly portible across a netwrok [ie you dont have to burn it to CD/DVD to transfer it in reasonible time] This is not the same as saying it implemnt for a hy trafic site. PNG to be not too large to transfer, and be lossles [mostly for further editing] an image desing for a High traffic network, inseard ofr networks in general, are desned to be as small, and still look like what they ment to repsent. Not the fact you have to Gzip them to get png small for high band with, means they not vieible as such, hence not desined for high traffic.
  20. Private Rights is the Reasonof Public counterparts on School Power Over Student Web Speech? · · Score: 1

    BTW the fact that Private Schools righty have the right to choose the own membership condtion is the very same reason That the "School voucher" and other intives the compermises a Public schools ability to proviade edcuation to any student in its distrect is a bad idea.

    as a (democratic) Republic, all citizens need a level education that the can make thought out informed choices, to forfill the duties to society, in things like, Elections, Jury Duty etc.

  21. Re:Free Speech on School Power Over Student Web Speech? · · Score: 1

    Nope What It is saying is the Mob can refuse to continaul to provied it serviaces, and membership , to those that do not agree with it's membership condtions.

    NDA's law already have a provition that they can no be used to hide illeage actvity, under the consperacy laws.

  22. Re:'editors' heh on British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case · · Score: 1
    Some AC wrote:
    How the fuck does this have anything to do with "my rights online?"


    Umm in that your [Britsh] computer safty rights are not being properly protected. it not that the twerps rights at issue, but the victum's rights, just becuase he "the man" don't mean his right's don't matter.
  23. Re:Good strategy on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    But you can only claim IP, need protection in markets your willing to try to sell to.
    If MS will not Sell to a country, No harm can MS claim in the WTO that the movie hurts ther trade with a contry, becuase they are the ones that decalred they will not sell.

  24. Re:Not Point, At This Point on Cassini-Huygens Reaches Phoebe · · Score: 1
    Right now there is little to no incentive for a company like Lockhead-Martin to build system to land people on the moon and build a moonbase.
    you DO realise that Lockhead-Martin is currently delepopying a Spaceshuttle for privet sector use?
  25. Re:Gotta trust the system... on Feds to Open BlackBoxVoting User Logs? · · Score: 1
    love how you forgot that the same thing was doen during the Civil War and WW2.

    Not Forgotten, and other the the dentaion of Activeve combatabcts as prisoners of war. those help with out cause or trial was condembed, and I vagle rember some about a offical applogy to the Japanesse-Americans held like that durring WW2.

    And while some people might point out We have 'declared' war on Terror, should rember the US holds any international laws that the US signes to also be national laws, which Include the Genivia Convetion.